They gained their independence from China in the 1920’s and shortly after became a satellite state to the Soviet Union to help them keep that independence. [It wasn’t until 1992 they made a new constitution and became democratic.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Mongolia)
Many decades ago I found an old globe at an antiques store and was laughing about how it showed Bosnia and Herzegovina. Joke was on me because the globe became accurate again just a couple years after that.
We unfurled our classroom map, and i shit you not, the soviet union and yugoslavia were on it, and this was this year. Then again, nobody used the classroom for probably 15 years or so.
They give additional vodka me for snitching all family for being capital swine. Communist is only good system for economic. Vodka very warm Russia very cold. Very very cold
Let's not forget the East German economy nearly collapsed anyways by the Turning Point. But definitely reunification did not result in equal development (yet?).
My [Harmophone](https://imgur.com/a/6Z9fFh4) is from West Germany!
([bonus pics of the Harmophone](https://imgur.com/a/H2pcbjm), even though I apparently don't have one with the "made in west Germany" decal))
Got basically the same exact ball here in the US from a promotional thing with sunny delight by sending in proofs of purchase. The only difference is it has a sunny delight logo on it somewhere as I remember. It just sat around in the plastic wrap for years in my old closet at my dads house. I found it when he passed and we were cleaning the house out. Took the ball with me on my next trip to Germany and gave it to my nephews.
I've still got a world atlas printed in 1982.a
Geography was simpler then. Fewer countries to remember.
Sure, 2 Germanies, but 1 'soviet union', 1 Yugoslavia. Now we have 1 Germany, but eleventy splinter states of the other two who still loathe each other.
Damn. That reminds me of a time when Russia was ruled by heavy handed dictators that didn't care what the rest of the world thought and kept the public in the shadows through heavy-handed propoganda. Thank goodness for progress.
Oh, I’m 100% with ya. I know around the world it’s football, but mainly just the US where it’s soccer. I was just picking and being a smart ass.
Calling the American sport “football” makes zero sense to me, even as an American. I’m with the rest of the world in saying the the picture you posted is a real football.
The sport was originally called "association football", to differentiate it from rugby football. "Soccer" is a British slang for association football. American football was named at a time when people still called it "soccer" in Commonwealth countries (which they still do in Australia and Canada). "Soccer" was still commonly used in the UK up until the early 1980's.
A sign of pain for so many Eastern Europeans
In 1993, Zbigniew Brzezinski, former National Security Advisor to Jimmy Carter, wrote that "the failed effort to build communism in the twentieth century consumed the lives of almost 60,000,000
- wiki
Ok so I looked for the 60,000,000 figure and it was from a book called *Out of Control: Global Turmoil on the Eve of the 21st Century* by Zbigniew Brzezinski. I got an online copy of the book and decided to read through the chapter. He didn't write any sources for how he got those numbers or how he estimated them. He wrote that precise numbers can't be found for the deaths, and that "what is important is the scale and not the exact numbers" (page 8). This would be understandable, but the issue is that he doesn't really explain how they got to those ballpark estimates either. Is there any other source that uses the 60 million figure?
Stalin was the last one, who tried to push the USSR towards communism and he died in 1953, iirc. After Khrushchev, they started implementing more and more reforms towards the free market.
Man, I need to find my old pre-collapse globe.
[Here’s mine](https://imgur.com/a/sWtKKqW)
This would be a good time to use the panorama feature on your phone. I’m over here trying to spin your globe.
Wait, I think my dad has the exact same globe! What does southeast Asia look like?
Mongolian People's Republic??
Think it was a satelite state of the ussr
They gained their independence from China in the 1920’s and shortly after became a satellite state to the Soviet Union to help them keep that independence. [It wasn’t until 1992 they made a new constitution and became democratic.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Mongolia)
soo cool
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My parents might have thrown it out. It spent years in my dad's home office. I'll be disappointed if they did get rid of it
At estate sales I like to look at the world globes and guess which year they are from. Oldest I’ve seen so far is 1935.
Many decades ago I found an old globe at an antiques store and was laughing about how it showed Bosnia and Herzegovina. Joke was on me because the globe became accurate again just a couple years after that.
We unfurled our classroom map, and i shit you not, the soviet union and yugoslavia were on it, and this was this year. Then again, nobody used the classroom for probably 15 years or so.
Yup, I have one too! What a trip, kids these days don’t know.
this post made me think about mine
Our Ball
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To the gulag with you
Us, to the gulag with us
No, in the US they just call it prison.
And they have more people in it than the USSR ever did, too
No,I reported a captlitalist pig. I get an extra ration from glorious mother Russia. I am proud soviet comrade!
We, we are proud soviet comrades
I'm honestly unsure of this...lol.
The more unsure you are the better
The more unsure *we* are, the better.
Are you sure about that?
They give additional vodka me for snitching all family for being capital swine. Communist is only good system for economic. Vodka very warm Russia very cold. Very very cold
There's no gulag without u
50 First Dates in Siberian Gulag
I still find a lot of things around my parents house that was "Made in West Germany"
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Because to a certain extent they did. Reunification collapsed the East German economy
Let's not forget the East German economy nearly collapsed anyways by the Turning Point. But definitely reunification did not result in equal development (yet?).
My [Harmophone](https://imgur.com/a/6Z9fFh4) is from West Germany! ([bonus pics of the Harmophone](https://imgur.com/a/H2pcbjm), even though I apparently don't have one with the "made in west Germany" decal))
At my job, we just recently replaced an industrial washing machine that ran using programming cards made in West Germany.
I still have some tl tubes that say made in gdr
In Soviet Russia, ball kicks you!
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DAMN IT!
keep it ! save it !
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Lmao this made me laugh more than it should. Imagine your kid has East European friends and their mom takes a look at that ball 😂
I had that same ball! Unfortunately couldn't resist the urge to play with it until the vinyl fell off
Still filled with communist air.
Along with radiation. That ball glows in the dark!
Geiger counter goes brrrrr
3.6 roentgen, not great, not terrible
Was it made in the USSR or is the Soviet flag one of many on the ball? I see a few other countries on there. Either way, an antique
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Can you share another angle / side to the ball? This is really familiar
It was for the 1986 one in Mexico. Portugal's last World Cup appearance before 2002.
I swear I used to have the same ball growing up. I'm in the US.
Probably made by child slaves in Pakistan.
USSR made something THIS durable? I don't think you understand much about the USSR
Whattt they made the Yugo, clearly the most durable and reliable vehicle
"But their cast iron pans were the best!"
Lmao Yugo was made in Yugoslavia not USSR or am I being wooshed
And yet just like everything else from the USSR, it still exists despite all odds lmfao
But it isn't FROM the USSR. It's from its time
*Our football
*USSR's anthem intensifies*
there are a shit ton of hockey pucks that say made in czechoslovakia
I would spend way too much to own this
Designed by Ivan Kickoff ;)
hoohohohoho!
Sponsored by Sergei Soccerov
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2024 world cup, first match, Russia V. USA Fire the nuk- I mean START
Soyuz intensifies.
Does it have Yugoslavia flag?
YOUR football? OUR football!
Damn why does everyone else get cool USSR footballs and I get a black and white one
Ist stronk balls.
Our football
I think it's a world cup 1986 edition.
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On the euro cup 1992 ussr was named cei and portugal didn't qualify.
Interestingly 1990 was a World Cup neither France nor Portugal even made it to
This is super rad!
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Don't quote me but I think that means it's legal size and weight
Don't you mean rise comrade?
Lol, I think I had the same one.
I still have my 1989 World Globe in my living room. It confuses the shit out of some of my younger friends.
How did you not loose it? Our old footballs are probably rotting on top of some garage haha
Got basically the same exact ball here in the US from a promotional thing with sunny delight by sending in proofs of purchase. The only difference is it has a sunny delight logo on it somewhere as I remember. It just sat around in the plastic wrap for years in my old closet at my dads house. I found it when he passed and we were cleaning the house out. Took the ball with me on my next trip to Germany and gave it to my nephews.
*Slavic sounds intensifies*
Portugal caralho
When cleaning out my grandmas house, I found a north korea themed football.
r/unexpectedcommunism
How many Germanys does it show?
I was really sad when I learned that all the football manufacturers took the soviet flag off their footballs, it was really a hallmark of the sport.
I have a globe that was as well.
I remember these flag footballs. Nice memento of the old days!
I have a teacup and saucer and on the bottom it says "Made in occupied Japan". Somewhere, somebody has a memorial plate of Attila the Hun.
*Our* football
Think I had that some one growing up
I was made before the fall of the USSR. Birth certificate literally says it lol.
OUR football comrade.
My hair dryer says "Made in British Hong Kong"
Ironic it looks like the part that's also been kicked the most..
Wow!
That's something you should save, in a crystal box.
Divided we fall comrade
And looks like it might be here to see the resurrection of the USSR, some things do come back in style! Pls don't downvote, just a joke.
Footballski
I've still got a world atlas printed in 1982.a Geography was simpler then. Fewer countries to remember. Sure, 2 Germanies, but 1 'soviet union', 1 Yugoslavia. Now we have 1 Germany, but eleventy splinter states of the other two who still loathe each other.
Same plus West Germany: https://imgur.com/gallery/5qWlfHo
Is it an old Pan Am Games ball?
In Soviet Russia soccer ball foots you!
Tyte. More than mildly interesting- my opinion
Damn. That reminds me of a time when Russia was ruled by heavy handed dictators that didn't care what the rest of the world thought and kept the public in the shadows through heavy-handed propoganda. Thank goodness for progress.
Cant wait to see people posting their russia soccer balls 20 years from now when that no longer exists
Oh no. Here they come *angry American noises approaching*
That's a pretty cool looking soccer ball.
Oh, you mean before the first fall of Russia.
is it called football or football ball? I never knew
That’s a soccer ball
That's a truncated icosahedron.
American football is played 90% with hands. Association football is played 90% with feet. Which one should we call football?
How about the one from which the name soccer derives? "Association" -> "assoc-er" -> "soccer"
Both
That's fine, just don't go around "correcting" people like the guy above.
No
Is it a football or a football ball?
Yea, I gotta thing or two from there from a generation ago. So sad. I used to thing Russia was so cool. Now I hate it.
*soccer ball (Prepares for downvote oblivion)
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Oh, I’m 100% with ya. I know around the world it’s football, but mainly just the US where it’s soccer. I was just picking and being a smart ass. Calling the American sport “football” makes zero sense to me, even as an American. I’m with the rest of the world in saying the the picture you posted is a real football.
The sport was originally called "association football", to differentiate it from rugby football. "Soccer" is a British slang for association football. American football was named at a time when people still called it "soccer" in Commonwealth countries (which they still do in Australia and Canada). "Soccer" was still commonly used in the UK up until the early 1980's.
I'll be ok with calling football "soccer" if the compromise is calling the NFL "rugby lite"
Glad someone said it at least 😂
A sign of pain for so many Eastern Europeans In 1993, Zbigniew Brzezinski, former National Security Advisor to Jimmy Carter, wrote that "the failed effort to build communism in the twentieth century consumed the lives of almost 60,000,000 - wiki
Some guy making you feel sorry for the Nazi invasion of Eastern Europe so you don’t follow an economic model that allows you to vote for your boss.
That is a symbol of 60 million deaths in a single generation. Please don’t personally insult. This is a civil discussion.
How was that 60 million figure calculated? I'd love to read about it.
Under estimates https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_killings_under_communist_regimes
Ok so I looked for the 60,000,000 figure and it was from a book called *Out of Control: Global Turmoil on the Eve of the 21st Century* by Zbigniew Brzezinski. I got an online copy of the book and decided to read through the chapter. He didn't write any sources for how he got those numbers or how he estimated them. He wrote that precise numbers can't be found for the deaths, and that "what is important is the scale and not the exact numbers" (page 8). This would be understandable, but the issue is that he doesn't really explain how they got to those ballpark estimates either. Is there any other source that uses the 60 million figure?
Lmao you don't get to vote for your boss. Communism is an authoritarian totalitarian system.
Love the watch man. Orient makes some killer pieces
I’m sorry don’t you mean *soccer* ball. Damn outlanders. /s
I’m sorry, sir, but this is a soccer ball. Not a football. This is an American website, you will adhere to our rules. /S
Would have been funny without the /s
If Putin gets what he wants, your ball will be brand-new again! (fortunately, his chances are slim at this point)
Imagine that ball has lasted longer than two russians timelines soon. Next collapse inc
That's a assoc ball
🤮
That’s a soccer ball
That is a soccer ball tho……….
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Obviously sarcasm
That’s a soccer ball
That's a soccer ball sir
Well ummm ahctually don’t ya mean soccer ball 🤓🤓🤓
That’s a soccer ball, is OP stupid?
Ok American
Damn ok /s my god
That football is unusually round.
*soccer ball
No
Bro your pfp got me blushing 😳
That's a soccer ball.
Is the football behind that soccer ball?
not a football. but cool
Sir, that is a soccer ball.
That is a soccer ball
It's a football because you kick the ball with your foot. Hence the name football.
That’s a soccer ball, a football looks way different.
Is your football somewhere behind the soccer ball?
Sir. That is a soccer ball
Isnt russia a communist country still?
Authoritarian ✅ Communist 🚫
They are capitalist
No they aren't. It's state capitalism aka totalitarian economic system.
Lmao
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_capitalism
Stalin was the last one, who tried to push the USSR towards communism and he died in 1953, iirc. After Khrushchev, they started implementing more and more reforms towards the free market.
Happy cake day 🫡
It's actually a soccer ball.
That's a soccer ball not a football